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The stars of the Showtime period crime drama City on a Hill took part in a panel for Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event to talk about the ratcheting tension between their characters. Aldis Hodge, who plays assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward, and Kevin Bacon, who plays FBI agent Jackie Rohr…

EXCLUSIVE: One Night In Miami and City On A Hill star Aldis Hodge will star with The Purge and The Tomorrow War‘s Edwin Hodge in a remake of the award winning Lei Zheng-directed Chinese film Parallel Forest. Kourosh Ahari will direct. The siblings will play brothers in the film, and they wrote the script with Jonathan…

"I mean, Jim Brown always been Jim Brown," laughs One Night In Miami star Aldis Hodge of the NFL legend he portrays in the Regina King-directed film. "The fact that he is still with us adds a different degree of pressure for me because I know that he is going to see it," Hodge added. "And any time you do a biopic, you…

Showtime’s Boston-based crime drama City On A Hill may take place in the 1990s, but today’s conversations about racism and police corruption will find relevance in the series’ upcoming second season, executive producer and showrunner Tom Fontana revealed. On Tuesday, Fontana joined Aldis Hodge, Kevin Bacon, Jill…

Regina King has four Emmys in recent years for her acting as well as a Best Supporting Actress Oscar on her mantel, and now in her debut behind the camera for Amazon’s entertaining and important new film One Night in Miami, deservedly she is earning more acclaim, but this time behind the camera. It isn’t easy for any…

Deadline has confirmed that Aldis Hodge is in talks to join New Line/DC's Black Adam as Hawkman. Hodge joins Dwayne Johnson who stars as the titular anti-hero in the latter’s first superhero role. Hodge will play Hawkman, aka Carter Hall, a member of the Justice Society. It was previously announced that Noah Centineo…

Regina King and the stars of her feature directorial debut One Night In Miami piped into the Venice Film Festival this afternoon to discuss the very timely picture that’s inspired by a real-life 1964 meeting of friends Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke. The press screening I attended this morning was as…

EXCLUSIVE: Dean Devlin, John Rogers and Chris Downey’s cult 2008 crime drama series Leverage is coming back with a new lead. IMDb TV, Amazon's free, ad-supported streaming service, has ordered a Leverage reimagining, headlined by Noah Wyle in a reunion with Rogers and Devlin after their collaboration on The Librarian/T…

EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be seeing more of Detective Caysen on the second season of Showtime’s City On A Hill. Matthew Del Negro, who recurred as the character in season 1, has been promoted to series regular for season 2 of the crime drama, starring Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge. Created, written and executive produced by…

Aldis Hodge has been acting since he was a child, but he caught the attention of Hollywood when he starred in the acclaimed Texas high school football drama Friday Night Lights as Ray “Voodoo” Tatum, the stone-faced, “I’m not here to make friends” Dillon Panthers quarterback who posed problems for Coach Taylor and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Regina King has started production in New Orleans on One Night In Miami, with Kingsley Ben-Adir (The OA) as civil rights activist Malcolm X, Eli Goree (Riverdale) as Cassius Clay right before he became Muhammad Ali, Aldis Hodge (Clemency) as gridiron great Jim Brown, and Grammy and Tony Award winner Leslie O…

Brian Banks, a remarkable true story of pure determination to defeat an unjust justice system, is an inspiring winner just like the real-life man who is Brian Banks. Here is a movie that gives you hope against all odds and will lift your spirits. It won the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year and…